2. John Lennon’s scream at the beginning of “Revolution” (single version) (The Beatles, 1968). —Howard Pickett

3. Joe Cocker’s scream in “With A Little Help From My Friends” at Woodstock (1969): “When his sweet-voiced backup singers ask, ‘Do you need anybody?’ Cocker responds … well, it’s hard to describe exactly what he howls. But there’s no happier sound. And no matter how long people get together to listen to music, there won’t be another moment when singer, song and audience merge so completely.” —Josh Tyrangiel, Woodstock: How Does It Sound 40 Years Later?

4. One of my all-time favorite screams is performed by Keith Moon in the middle section of Jeff Beck’s 1966 recording of “Beck’s Bolero” – which also featured Jimmy Page, Nicky Hopkins and John Paul Jones (all prominent session men in those days). —Ron Dempesmeier

5. For a purely unmotivated, for-the-hell-of-it scream, Jim Morrison’s outburst at the start of the heavier part of “When The Music’s Over” (The Doors, Strange Days, 1967). Motivation is filled in later when another scream follows “We want the world and we want it . . .”

GREAT YEAH

The “Yeahs” in the first minute of Stevie Wonder’s 1963 “Fingertips” and at 3:36-3:49: the almost excruciating liberation of a 12-year-old’s pent-up creative energy, a resonant moment for rock. —Matt Smith